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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?
(a) He altruism.
(b) His gentle sweetness.
(c) He physical prowess.
(d) His perseverance in the face of adversity.

2. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would marry her.
(b) He would rather die than marry her.
(c) He would rather marry his own brother.
(d) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.

3. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?
(a) Worked on his father's vineyard.
(b) Taught school.
(c) Cooked for a wealthy family.
(d) Rode a horse and buggy.

4. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

5. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her mother told them.
(b) She told them.
(c) Her father told them.
(d) Her new husband told them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

2. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?

3. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

4. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

5. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

4. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

5. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

6. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

7. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

8. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

9. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

10. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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